Watch the National Book festival starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Our coverage includes interswruz rouge Bader Ginsburg in her book my own words, david treuer, Sharon Robinson talks about her book, chifld the dream. Rick atkinson and thomas machll. It is saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. Up next, a discussion about the apollo spacesuits 50 years after the first u. S. Moon landing. Panelist is including designers. The space museum was the host of this event here in washington, d. C. Weve assembled a panel of speakers, a really fantastic. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and to inform us on the lessons that we have learned as we are going back to the next spacesuit in the next thing in spacesuit development, be it going back to the moon, going to an asteroid or going on to mars. In order to save time for tonights program, im going to introduce all four speakers and theyre going t
A maker ofessor, and spacesuit replicas. The Smithsonian National air and space museum in washington, d. C. , hosted this event. We have assembled a panel of speakers. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and inform us on the lessons we have learned in going back to the next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of appearance are a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan nagata, an artist and maker from Southern Calif
Lessons we have learned in going back to the next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of a recentlyare retired test engineer at ilc ther, the company that made apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan an artist and maker from Southern California who did a unique approach to becoming a model maker. He started out as a film director, and discovered his real passion was making models, props, and costumes for hire. They are featured in many movies. Ryan will talk about his erience rear creating recreating the suits used in the biopic. A russian lead spacesuit in ther at the
The next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of appearance are a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan nagata, an artist and maker from Southern California who did a unique approach to becoming a model maker. He started out as a film director, and discovered his real passion was making models, props, and costumes for hire. They are featured in many movies. Ryan will talk about his experience recreating some vintage suits used in the biopic. Our third speaker for tonight was a russian lead spacesuit
All right, lets bring this hearing to order. In december of 2017, President Trump outlined a bold space in december of 2017, President Trump outlined a bold vision to reinvigorate space leadership. Space leadership calls for returning humans to the moon for the First Time Since 1972. This time it will be for long time exploration and use and will be followed by manned missions to mars. Nasa had planned to return to the moon by 2028, but in the speech to the National Space council in april, Vice President announced a dramatic acceleration of that time line. Cil in april, Vice President announced a dramatic acceleration of that time line. Under the program, the United States will land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024 and accomplish a sustained presence on the moon or in lunar orbit. I share the administrations sense of urgency. As i told the administrator, the United States has entered a new space race driven by the expansion of chinas space power ambitions and the ex